News

Consultation hour during vacation: by appointment

Anja Wagner is on leave from July 1, 2012. The last office hours take place on Wedensday, June 27.

Office hours:
Tuesday, 10-12 am
Wednesday, 10-12 am

Teaching

Teaching in the Summer Semester 2012

088640 Konzepte der Person
03.04.12, Di 14-16, ULB 202

088708 Migration
04.04.12, Mi 14-16, STU 102 (2.4)

088784 Preparing and assessing fieldwork
03.04.12, Di 16-18, STU 105 (2.10)

Teaching in the Winter Semester 2011/12

088700 Tutorial Seminar
19.10.11, Mi 14-16, F 040

088695 Training course (Procedures of academic research)
19.10.11, Mi 14-16, F 040

088733 From photo wallah to Web 2.0: media anthropological perspectives on India
17.10.11, Mo 16-18, STU 104 (2.1)

088858 Going to the field and coming back
n. V., Blockterm. -

Teaching in the Summer Semester 2011

087839 Lektürekurs zur Vorlesung
14.04.11, Do 10-12, STU 105 (2.10)

087843 Gender in Indien
11.04.11, Mo 14-16, STU 105 (2.10)

087949 Nature, culture, ecology - the anthropology of environment
12.04.11, Di 14-16, STU 105 (2.10) 

Curriculum vitae

Anja Wagner studied anthropology and economics at Free University Berlin and completed her postgraduate studies in anthropology at the South Asia Institute, University of Heidelberg. She started working as a lecturer and faculty member at the Institute of Ethnology in Münster in April 2011. She has also been teaching at the Institute of Ethnology in Heidelberg. Anja Wagner is the vice-spokesperson of the Himalyan Studies Group of the German Anthropological Association (DGV). Link

Fieldwork

India (North India, Himachal Pradesh)

Research project (completed) on enactments of environment and making of place among the Gaddi in Himachal Pradesh (funded by the German National Academic Foundation)

Main Focus

Interests

Environmental Anthropology, Anthropology of Place, Space and Mobility, Political Ecology, Pastoralism, Gender and Kinship, STS, Media Anthropology

Regional

South Asia, India, Western Himalaya

Languages

English, Spanish, French, Hindi

Publications

Wagner, Anja (2011), Die Produktion "virtueller" Gaddi – Video-CDs als Zugang zu Darstellungen kollektiver Identität, in Masala: Newsletter Virtuelle Fachbibliothek Südasien, Jg. 6, Nr. 1, http://archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/savifadok/volltexte/2011/1472.

Wagner, Anja und Berit Fuhrmann (2007), Über Häuser und Fruchtbarkeit. Kulturelle Konzepte und tribale Gesellschaftsordnungen in Nordostindien. Die ethnographische Literatur zu den Garo, Khasi und Naga neu gelesen. Berlin: Weißensee.

Doctoral dissertation
Wagner, Anja (2010), The Gaddi Beyond Pastoralism. Making Place in the Indian Himalayas. Unveröffentlichte Dissertation, Universität Heidelberg (verteidigt am 10.11.2010).